There are many theories why the world's species all either use "sex between two different but related genomes" or "cloning combined with highly unstable individual genetics" , to reproduce themselves.
This, rather than merely reproducing pure clones of each species' best individual samples , forever and forever.
But most of those theories boil down to the fact that a highly diverse (dirty) (mixed) population presents less of a static target to incoming diseases and parasites , compared to a select and unendingly stable clone line.
Eugenic scientists everywhere knew all of this, even in the 1940s, but they thought of themselves as the smartest men and women in the universe and just assumed we humans could beat the odds.
But even as Germany tried to institute eugenic autarky during WWII, the worm of romantic love and the attraction between opposites , bit its way into their Aryan apple.
Many an enslaved foreigner and a German woman or a German male occupying troop and an enslaved female from the occupied population ended up falling in love and making babies : mixed babies.
Just as blood studies of Aryan and non-Aryan blood suggested has always happened in times of war, invasion and conquest.
(And no, I am not forgetting children born of war rape .
But remember despite German eugenicists hating this activity and making it among their 'crime of all crimes', it still went on regardless.
As did the equally hated 'true love matches'.)
Yes, the Nazis talked much of blood politics but were in the event forced to keep the results of their own Nazi-directed blood typing studies well out of their public rhetoric.
Because as Rachel Boaz has discovered, those studies totally failed to find pure populations of anyone - friend and foe - to back up their soil and blood rhetoric.
Interestingly, occupied populations hated the sight of teenage Germans and their own teenagers falling in love and treated these girls and their children worse than they tended to treat the powerful adults who profited so well off collaboration.
We all recall the news reels of girls with shaved heads - they were actually the lucky ones .
Many others were shot outright in the local non-judicial killings that happened just after Liberation in every country.
Purity obsessions don't wear well on German or Frenchman - they should instead admit that opposites attracting does more to keep our species fit than any amount of positive or negative eugenic measures....
This, rather than merely reproducing pure clones of each species' best individual samples , forever and forever.
But most of those theories boil down to the fact that a highly diverse (dirty) (mixed) population presents less of a static target to incoming diseases and parasites , compared to a select and unendingly stable clone line.
Eugenic scientists everywhere knew all of this, even in the 1940s, but they thought of themselves as the smartest men and women in the universe and just assumed we humans could beat the odds.
But even as Germany tried to institute eugenic autarky during WWII, the worm of romantic love and the attraction between opposites , bit its way into their Aryan apple.
Many an enslaved foreigner and a German woman or a German male occupying troop and an enslaved female from the occupied population ended up falling in love and making babies : mixed babies.
Just as blood studies of Aryan and non-Aryan blood suggested has always happened in times of war, invasion and conquest.
(And no, I am not forgetting children born of war rape .
But remember despite German eugenicists hating this activity and making it among their 'crime of all crimes', it still went on regardless.
As did the equally hated 'true love matches'.)
Yes, the Nazis talked much of blood politics but were in the event forced to keep the results of their own Nazi-directed blood typing studies well out of their public rhetoric.
Because as Rachel Boaz has discovered, those studies totally failed to find pure populations of anyone - friend and foe - to back up their soil and blood rhetoric.
Interestingly, occupied populations hated the sight of teenage Germans and their own teenagers falling in love and treated these girls and their children worse than they tended to treat the powerful adults who profited so well off collaboration.
We all recall the news reels of girls with shaved heads - they were actually the lucky ones .
Many others were shot outright in the local non-judicial killings that happened just after Liberation in every country.
Purity obsessions don't wear well on German or Frenchman - they should instead admit that opposites attracting does more to keep our species fit than any amount of positive or negative eugenic measures....
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